Wu Zheng did not appear in public, he stayed in the city tower all the time, watching and listening from the narrow window, without a trace of excitement in his heart.

Is it still too late? This is a question that Wu Zheng has been thinking about in his heart.

But Wu Zheng didn't regret it, and he was reluctant to let the rabbit beat the wolf.

Because, any victory comes at a price, doesn't it?

It's just that Wu Zheng is a little heartbroken after all, Jiang Quanyi and the thousands of veterans who have been through a hundred battles...... Originally, Wu Zheng wanted to select 3,000 people from this army and reorganize it into a rapid reaction force, and equip them with the newly developed repeating guns of the military workshop.

Is it still too late?

Wu Zheng turned his head to Song An and said, "Pass the order to Liao Zhongping, he ...... It's time to get moving. ”

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Many times, people are herd creatures.

It's the same when fighting.

People need role models, and the power of examples is endless.

Role models inspire people's fighting spirit, make people not afraid of pain, bloodshed, and death, and can win more with less, defeat the strong with the weak, and turn decay into magic.

In all dynasties, the generals who led the troops, no matter how high their rank, must have surrounded him with so many people who dared to die.

Usually they are rich, and let them take the lead in fighting hard in wartime.

In ancient times, it was called Xiandeng, and in later generations, it was called the vanguard and the death squad.

In fact, in China's thousands of years of war culture, the art of war is not a change of soup, not a change of medicine, and history is not written by ordinary people, but is depicted by the graffiti of a few people who dare to die.

Qi Jiajie is such a person.

People who are not afraid of death are actually not terrible, but what is terrible is people who know that they should die.

Because of such a person, there is nothing that can hinder his desire to die.

Moreover, the death of such a person must be meaningful, because he has a persistent goal, why did he die?

When blocking the replacement of his brother, Qi Jiajie already understood that this battle could not be won.

If you can't win, you still have to fight, that is General Jiang is not willing to retreat, why is he not happy, because once Haizhou is lost, Huai'an Mansion and even Yangzhou Mansion will be penetrated by the enemy in one fell swoop.

The reason is simple, war is very difficult.

Therefore, before Qi Jiajie entered the city, he had already made up his mind to die.

Not for anything else, just for honor, the honor that three generations of the Qi family have saved with their lives.

When facing the Yellow Flag cavalry led by Ji Xiha and approaching the South Gate, Qi Jiajie had already given up all illusions of resisting.

Although the walls of Haizhou are high, two feet and five feet (about eight meters) high, for the cavalry, shooting on horses, a distance of six meters, is almost an arrow against the nose of the defender.

Haizhou is small in radius and the city wall is not long, which makes the enemy's forces very dense and the intensity of the attack is not trivial.

The key is that the enemy came suddenly, and many facilities that could have been calmly arranged were too late to be arranged, and dozens of tiger squatting small cannons on the head of the city only had deterrent power and no lethality for the galloping cavalry.

Since you don't have any illusions, then you have desperate thoughts.

After the defenders on the city wall were stunned by the enemy's first wave of attacks, Qi Jiajie did not hesitate to lead the reserve team to rush to the top of the city.

Before going up the wall, Qi Jiajie pointed to the eight grenades on his body and said to the soldiers: "If we live, the whole army will collapse, and if we die, the general will have time to break through from the east." Rush up with me and let those northern dogs see how hard our southerners' bones are...... If I'm afraid of death, any of you can shoot me ......!" ”

In a word, it is a prophecy!

Qi Jiajie is dead.

In fact, when Qi Jiajie led three hundred reserves to rush to the city wall, the battle situation was already very dangerous.

Ji Xiha came prepared, although he was led by cavalry, and he brought a lot of siege equipment from Shuyang.

After the army reached the south gate, Jishiha did not hesitate to choose to attack.

Under the cover of the rangers' flying shots, at least a thousand soldiers climbed the ladder to the city.

The walls are only two feet and five feet long, and the climb can be completed in the blink of an eye.

The defenders had to brave the arrows fired by the enemy cavalry to stop the enemy, and they were killed and wounded by the rain of arrows.

In other words, by the time the enemy attacked the walls, the defenders were already dead and wounded, and they could not resist at all.

When Qi Jiajie led three hundred reserves to rush to the city wall, it was just when the defenders were about to be defeated.

But because of such urgency, Qi Jiajie had no choice.

So he tore open the fuse and rushed straight to the most dense spot of the enemy on the upper wall.

With the fire, smoke, and deafening explosions, everything seemed so natural and natural to die.

Even, not a word, not a slogan was left.

But all this, in the eyes of the reserve soldiers who rushed to the city wall behind Qi Jiajie, what kind of determination was that?

If the officer dares to die, the soldier will dare to die.

A wolf can turn a flock of sheep into a pack of wolves.

What's more, these veterans who were brought to Haizhou by Jiang Quanyi from Jiangdu five years ago, and traveled back and forth for tens of thousands of miles, they have never been sheep.

There is no need for agitation, let alone persecution.

Three, five, ten...... When the entire wall is covered with smoke, fire, and explosions, there can be no more victors.

In fact, those who are not afraid of death and those who are prepared often take advantage of such a battlefield where there is no hope of victory.

When the two armies are fighting, the greatest casualties are often in stalemate, confrontation, and stalemate, and if the superior side has really been distinguished, then the side that has the upper hand can easily defeat the side that has lost the upper hand, and basically there will not be many casualties.

For example, at the moment, once the city is broken, the defenders will be crushed by the crowd of enemy soldiers, and in the next time, you can't run for your life if you don't want to, even if you want to fight hard, you will find that when you wave the knife blatantly, you will find that there are several knives to fight, and then several knives will be stabbed between your chest and abdomen.

But being rushed by Qi Jiajie's group like this, the battle losses of both sides were suddenly reversed from the original defeat, and even the casualties of the enemy army quickly overtook them.

It is not surprising that the defenders have a condescending advantage, and the concussive air caused by an explosion is enough to overturn a ladder and even spread to the periphery, which causes the enemy's advantage to quickly turn into a disadvantage.

When the followers of the reserve saw that the enemy could no longer be found on the city wall, they rushed to the enemy on the ladder.

The explosion was like a peony flower blooming on the city wall, more than a dozen ladders were quickly destroyed, and the enemy's body fell like a dumpling, and the people in it may not have time to feel the fear, but for Jishiha and the rear army who were watching from a distance, this kind of shock in the heart was incomprehensible.

The enemy finally retreated.

The surviving defenders of the city walls slowly approached the battlements and silently watched the enemy retreat like a tide.

Hot tears dripped from their eyes, these were not tears of joy for the rest of their lives, but tears of pride, tears of gratitude for their survival in exchange for their lives by their comrades-in-arms.

There were only more than 200 people left, and in less than an hour, a battalion of 1,000 people left more than 200 people, more than half of whom were wounded.